It’s not how hard you fall, but how you pick yourself up that really matters. That is what we learned from 9000+ responses to our HBR survey on bouncing back from career setbacks. Resilience alone won’t cut it—you need to do some serious self-reflection. We worked with Douglas (Tim) Hall, a leading expert on careers, and his doctoral student Lan Wang of Boston University’s School of Management to analyze the data about how managers said they recovered. Three overall patterns emerged.